EBay is not working today, what’s going on

Since 9:00 am on June 12, 2019, eBay’s website is unreachable: users trying to access are shown the words Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

Since 9:00 am on June 12, eBay’s website is down. Those trying to access the e-commerce site are greeted by a completely blank page with an error message “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”. What does this sentence mean? That at the moment the eBay servers are not reachable and users cannot buy or sell products.

In a few minutes the reports arrived on social media and on the downdetector.it website have been thousands. On Twitter, users are trying to find solutions to the eBay down, without succeeding. For the moment the staff of the e-commerce site has not released any communication: they are working to solve the technical problem as soon as possible. As said, it’s an infrastructural problem that has sent down the eBay website. We will continue to follow the story and in the next few hours we will surely know more.

Why the eBay site is not working

Usersersers who try to access the eBay site are greeted by a white screen with a short message “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”. This is an error message that appears when the servers are temporarily unable to provide a response to the client’s request. eBay’s technicians are definitely working to fix the problem as soon as possible and get the e-commerce site back online. In the meantime, users are looking for a solution on social media, hoping that the inefficiency will be resolved immediately.

UPDATE 9:15am. The issue was promptly resolved and the site is back up and running.